Word: retreating
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...finance the Common Market's proposed new fund for agricultural supports. The French wanted a sliding system that would have put the heaviest burden on Germany; the Germans wanted a fixed assessment. On this issue, the Germans had their way. On other issues, notably price, they had to retreat...
...President ticked off the specifics of the U.S. buildup in military strength over the last year, including a doubling of the delivery rate of Polaris submarines and the production capacity of Minuteman missiles. Because "we have rejected any all-or-nothing posture which would leave no choice but inglorious retreat or unlimited retaliation," said Kennedy, the U.S. has also doubled the number of ready combat elements in the Army's Strategic Reserve, increased the active fleet by more than 70 vessels and tactical air forces by nearly a dozen wings, expanded antiguerrilla forces and modernized weapons and ammunition...
LartYèguy argues that a large part of the French officer corps shares the paras' impatient rage at the politicians and blames them for leading the nation in a long retreat from its onetime glory. In effect. Lartèguy's novel is a warning (echoed by many French observers): unless De Gaulle can perform the miracle of ending the Algerian war without further damage to the sense of gloire, the army that put him in power may yet try to overthrow...
Died. Ralph Owen Brewster, 73, two-term (1940-52) Republican Senator from Maine, a bland-faced Yankee whose old-timy appearance was belied by his immense skill as a political infighter and an unmatched talent for provoking controversy; while on a Christian Science retreat in Boston. A descendant of Mayflower Colonist William Brewster, ambitious Owen Brewster went into politics at 21, in a series of acrimonious campaigns climbed from state senator to Governor (1924-28), U.S. Representative (1934-40), and finally into the Senate, where as chairman of the War Investigating Committee he built a reputation as a relentless prosecutor...
...Premier David Ben-Gurion, 75, embarked upon a program unlikely to win cheers from rigidly orthodox religious leaders back in Jerusalem. Once the demands of protocol had been discharged, the patriarch of the Jewish homeland intended to indulge a longtime fascination with Buddhism by making a ten-day contemplative retreat at the home of U Nu, himself a Buddhist monk. Meantime, livening up the diplomatic garden parties, Ben-Gurion wowed his hosts by showing up attired like a potbellied pixy in Burma's traditional gaungbaung headgear and silk sarong. Chortled the Israeli leader: "Now I know what the Scots...